WEBVTT THIS APPARENTLY WAS NOTTHE ONLY RESCUE TODAY.SIOBHAN: PLENTY OF INCIDENTSKEEPING FIRST RESPONDERS BUSYTODAY.A PICKUP TRUCK WENT THROUGH THEICE.THIS PLANE CRASHED DURINGTAKEOFF.AND A DOG HAD TO BE RESCUED FROMTHE ICY WATER.THE BED OF THE PICKUP TRUCKSTICKS OUT OF THE ICE.>> THE INITIAL REPORT WAS PEOPLEWERE STILL IN THE TRUCK WHEN ITWAS OIN THE WATER.>> NO ONE WAS INJURED.EVERYONE WAS ABLE TO GET OUT OFTHEIR OWN BEFORE FISH AND GAMEARRIVED.WHILE THEY WERE ON THE SCENE,LESS THAN A MILE AWAY, A SMALLPLANE CRASHES DURING TAKEOFF ONTHE RUNWAY.>> WE HEARD PEOPLE GOING OH, WOW.WE LOOKED OVER AND THERE WAS APLANE TOPPLING OVER AND STANDINGON HIS NOSE AND FELL RIGHT OVER.SIOBHAN: MORE THAN 100 PEOPLEWERE IN THE AREA CELEBRATING THEWINTER CARNIVAL.MANY JUMPING INTO ACTION TOHELP.>> A LOT OF PEOPLE WENT TO HELP,LIKE 40 JUST RUNNING.>> IT WAS THE TYPE OF PLANEWHERE THE COCKPIT SLIDES BACK.THERE WERE NOT DOORS ON THEOUTSIDE.THE PILOT AND PASSENGER WERETRAPPED INSIDE.SIOBHAN: PEOPLE HELPED TO LIFTTHE PLANE OFF THE ICE.>> COULD NOT GET THE HATCHBACK.THE PILOT SAID BREAK THE WINDOW.WE WERE ABLE TO GET THE PILOTAND PASSENGER OUT.SIOBHAN: NEITHER PERSON WASINJURED.WHEN THEY WERE OUT SAFELY, THEPLANE WAS TOWED AWAY BY A SNOWMACHINE.MINUTES AFTER THINGS STARTED TOCALM DOWN, A DOG BECAME TRAPPEDIN ICY WATER.AFTER SEVERAL TENSE MINUTES, THEDOG APPEARS TO BE A STRAY ANDWAS RESCUED SAFELY.IT WAS VERY WINDY HERE TODAY.FISH AND GAME SAYS IT APPEARSTHE PLANE HIT A SNOW BANK ON THERUNWAY, CAUSING IT TO FLIP OVER.THEY ARE URGING PEOPLE TO USEEXTREME CAUTION IF THEY GO OUT

Alton Bay was a hot bed of activity for first responders Sunday. A truck fell through the ice, a plane flipped over, and a dog had to be rescued from the icy water.

The bed of the red pickup truck was sticking out of the ice near Sandy Point in Alton.

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"The initial report is that people were still in the truck when it was in the water so responded up here," Fish and Game Lt. Mike Eastman said.

No one was injured. Everyone in the truck was able to get out on their before Fish and Game personnel arrived.

But while officers were at the scene, a small plane crashed during takeoff on the ice runway less than a mile away.

"We heard people going 'oh wow, oh wow!' so we looked over and there was a plane just sort of toppling over and it was standing on its nose for a second. Then it just fell right over. It looked like a tin can," said Beth Myer, whose daughter ran to help.

More than a hundred people were in the area celebrating the winter carnival.

"There's a lot of people that went out to help though," said Joshua Hanson, a witness. "There was like 40. They were just running."

"It was the type of plane where the cockpit actually slides back," Eastman said. "There's no door or anything on the outside so the pilot and the passenger were trapped inside the plane at that point."

The good Samaritans helped lift the plane off the ice.

"We couldn't get the hatch back so the pilot said just break the window. I used my baton to the break the window out and we were able to get the pilot and the passenger out," Eastman said.

Neither person was injured. Once they were out safely, the plane was flipped back over and eventually towed away by a snow machine.

Minutes after things started to calm down, a dog became trapped in icy water underneath a dock. The dog appeared to be a stray and was rescued safely after several tense minutes.

Fish and Game officials said it appears the plane hit a snowbank along the runway, causing it to flip. Nobody was injured today but they're urging people to use extreme caution on the ice, especially after the mild weekend. Recently, three people died when their snowmobiles went through the ice in Alton and Moultonborough on Lake Winnipesaukee.